Main
Pierre-Ami Maudoux
Environmental economist with strong data science skills and over three years of experience working in international institutions.
Education
MSc, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen, DK
2017 - 2015
- GPA: 10.8/12
- Thesis: “Water Quality Improvements from Macroalgae Aquaculture in Denmark: A Contingent Valuation Study”
CEMS Master in International Management
Louvain School of Management
Louvain-la-Neuve, BE
2015 - 2013
- Cum laude
- Thesis: “An analysis of the contributions of management science to corporate GHG emissions reductions”
- Semester exchange at NOVA School of Business and Economics (Lisbon, Portugal)
Bachelor degree in Economics and Management
Université catholique de Louvain
Louvain-la-Neuve, BE
2013 - 2010
- Cum laude
- Minor in chinese studies
Rotary Youth Exchange Program
Brookfield East High School
Milwaukee, WI, US
2010 - 2009
- Senior year exchange in an American high school
High school degree
Collège Saint Joseph
Chimay, BE
2009 - 2003
- Focus: foreign languages and science
Experience
Consultant, Fisheries and Aquaculture Statistics
FAO of the UN
Rome, IT and Barcelona, ES
current - 2018
- Produced data visualisation (R, PowerBI, Tableau, QGIS) for official FAO publications and presentations at major international events (including COP25)
- Streamlined and increased automation in the management of the fisheries and aquaculture employment database. Created a comprehensive R application to perform data imputation on the joint FAO-OECD employment database.
- Represented FAO at the UN’s International Symposium on the use of Big Data for official statistics (Hangzhou, 2019)
- Co-authored chapters in high-profile publications (see publications section below)
- Contributed to the revision of key statistical dissemination and collection tools (SOFIA, FishStatJ, Statistical Yearbook, data collection questionnaires)
Trainee
European Investment Bank
Luxembourg, LU
2018 - 2018
- Produced a new methodology based on the NACE classification to better estimate lending statistics for the Bank’s Blue Economy projects.
- Developed a dataset of hundreds of environmental performance indicators specifically designed for operations taking place in marine and coastal areas.
Intern
Umicore
São Paulo, BR
2014 - 2014
- Performed weekly financial reporting of sales to the business unit management, cost reduction monitoring, one-off financial reporting tasks (e.g. precious metal hedges, product profitability), and sales forecasting of speciality products over a 6 months period.
Head of Quality
Junior Consulting Louvain
Louvain-la-Neuve, BE
2014 - 2012
- Coordinated the work of a team of seven people on issues such as: resolving legal affairs; monitoring the quality of external projects (i.e. reporting and analysing customer experience); modelling and optimising organisational processes; preparing the company for the external audit by the European Federation of Junior Enterprises; and monitoring the overall performance of the organisation with key performance indicators.
Intern
INOWAI
Luxembourg, LU
2012 - 2012
- Worked as a business process analyst in order to facilitate the adoption/use of the company’s new information system by its employees.
Member
AIESEC LLN
Louvain-la-Neuve, BE
2012 - 2011
- Created and managed Facebook and Twitter pages for the local chapter. Built the alumni database.
Publications
Yearbook of Fishery and Aquaculture Statistics 2019
FAO
N/A
2021
- Assisted in the preparation and production of the publication.
The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2020
FAO
N/A
2020
- Co-author: “Fish utilization and processing” section.
- Co-author: “Fisheries and aquaculture projections” section.
Agricultural Outlook 2020-2029
OECD-FAO
N/A
2020
- Co-author: chapter 8, on the market situation and medium-term projections for world fish markets.
Yearbook of Fishery and Aquaculture Statistics 2018
FAO
N/A
2020
- Assisted in the preparation and production of the publication.
Conferences
International Symposium on the Use of Big Data for Official Statistics
UN Global Working Group on Big Data
Hangzhou, CN
2019
- Presented applications of big data in FAO’s fisheries and aquaculture division.
Courses & certifications
Data Scientist with R Track
N/A
DataCamp
2022
- 22-courses, 88-hours Data Science course covering data importing, cleaning, manipulation, visualization, and machine learning through video lectures, case studies and skills assessments.
Geographic Information Systems Specialization
UCDavis
Coursera
2019
- Comprehensive certification covering basic to advanced GIS concepts and practice with ArcGIS.
Blue Economy Summer School
University of Pécs
Pécs, HU
2013
- Two weeks of classes and applied project on the circular economy, led by Gunter Pauli.